My family has actually been doing this for years. We don't paint them green, put plastic chotskies on it, or (heaven forbid) buy it premade... but Christmas morning, fresh baked out of the oven the cinnamon roll tree is very festive. and gooeyand yummy :)

Vanessa seems to have the right idea - a Cinnamon roll "tree" in the same way that one big and two small pancakes can be a "Mickey Mouse" pancake. Cute for the kids but not actually altering food that doesn't need altering

But seriously? Cinnamon bun cake? With weird teal icing? I don't understand who thinks this is a good idea. Probably the same people who gave "Gigli" the green light.

That looks positively REVOLTING!!! Ugh, who would think the make something like that? Looks like moldy cinnamon buns!Vanessa, we do the same every holiday. Fresh cinnamon buns in a bundt pan as pull-apart bread.

I, for one, am actually glad you explained what it was, because I would never have believed that someone wanted to do this to perfectly good cinnamon buns. Another blessing to count this year-- ours won't look like that!

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Somewhere I was reading recently (I think it might have been "The End of Overeating"), they were talking about the history of the Cinnabon franchise, and how the woman who started it all began with good, real, not-that-horrible-for-you ingredients. She had a pastry shop and this was her best seller. Then she was approached by a megacorp who wanted to get them in every mall and airport. She worked with him for a long time to keep the product as true to the original as she could, but over time as the need to make them highly portable and shelf-stable prior to cooking rose, more fake ingredients had to be added. They also got bigger with more stuff dumped on them.

In the book the creator was quoted as saying she never intended for people to be eating those things so big, so often. She didn't sound very happy about where it had all gone, and I bet this kind of concoction would make it worse.

Does anyone else find the thought of a green cinnamon roll as repulsive as I do? Reminds me of the time my college dining hall tried to "celebrate" St. Patrick's day by adding green food coloring to everything. I mean everything. Green eggs and ham is cute for a kid's book...but not for breakfast.

I'm afraid the rest of the charity event is going to have to wait a couple of weeks for me. Someone managed to harvest my credit/debit card number and compromised my card over the weekend (basically emptying my account - thank goodness for protection policies on this that mean I'm only broke for a few days), so I have no way to send money in through firstgiving until my bank can send me a new card.

About my only change in online purchasing behavior lately has been the charity sites. Has anyone else reported problems? I'm a little concerned that one of the sites from the first few days might have been hacked, which would be a horrible thing for someone to do. It might be sheer coincidence, of course. I hope the charity links will be left up for a while, and I'll catch back up once I have a way to send money!

Is there some kind of evil wreckerator mastermind giving marching orders to these bakeries for these weird holiday trends? People have seen this weirdness in more than one place. And some of the other postings through the months. And that weird Santa-on-a-hilltop-overlooking-xmas-cartoon-scene-with-sprinkles-pointsettias-and-lightbulbs on the side suggests that too. Since there was more than one. But that may have been a kit. But this?

Some evil bakery mastermind must be plotting this stuff. whip out the cameras, wreckporters! and pick off these creations wherever they may lurk!

wv: reweak. that intestine cake yesterday made me reweak after I already felt a little sick.

OH! Seriously NOT edible! And um... excuse me, but aren't those mercury-glass ball ornaments? Who wants THOSE on their dessert? Let's hope they are the more safer less non-edible PLASTIC glass ball ornaments. HA!

My mom used to make these horrid cakes when i was a kid 20+ years ago. She would use this as her "holiday" dish for the potlucks at church. They were disturbing to look at then, and still a little nausiating now.

I first saw this post this morning when I was still half-asleep and I thought it was just a really ugly cupcake cake. OH MY GOD! WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO EAT THAT MANY CINNAMON BUNS?! Disgust doesn't quite seem to convey the deep emotion I'm feeling right now.

Even coming back to look at this (and re-comment) hours and hours later, its still just as butt-ugly as it was when I tried looking at it this morning. I thought I'd give the bun-cake another chance, but.... yah... I still wanna hurl.

OMG!! now i know where my boss is getting his ideas from! my boss at the Ithaca Bakery tried to make one of these with cinnamon bun dough and he slathered it with fondant and sprinkles! thank god it didn't make it to the shelves or all our customers would run away screaming!

um, thanks for the link, Anon @ 11:00 a.m.-ish. That wedding cake is "special." btw, did you notice on the weird boxed cakes they have a flowerbox with a row of buns and a rose? so instead of buying a rose, we buy a row of cinnamon buns and a sugar rose. Show someone you love them by offering them the ticket to obesity and diabetes.

I wonder how many calories are in the bun-tree? minus the glass ornaments of course. they just don't "cut" it.

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